Session 6: Finding and Organizing Internet Resources

Essential Question: How are Internet resources effectively and efficiently located and organized?

• Students have access to Internet resources (pre-selected on a webpage through search engines and directories) that meet diverse learner needs
• Students and teachers effectively and efficiently locate and organize Internet resources.
• Teachers value Internet resource location and organization skills as important for lifelong learning.

Connectivity & Session Starter

• Pre-session Play:

• Imagination Cubed http://www.imaginationcubed.com/index.php
• Soda Constructor http://www.sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm
• Jam Legend http://www.jamlegend.com/
• Line Rider http://linerider.com/

Free Technology for Teachers Blog (Richard Byrne at Oxford Hills)

Wicked Decent Learning Podcast (Jeff Bailey at Mt. Valley and Dan Ryder at Mt. Blue)

Telstar Music & Art Teacher Blogs

• Searching the Internet is like …

• Thinking about using Internet resources in the classroom is like …
• Asking students to conduct Internet searches is like …
• Let me tell you what keeps me up at night . . .

Effective Internet Searches

Video on Searching
http://www.commoncraft.com/search

GOOGLE
http://www.google.com/

Boolean Search on the Internet: A Primer in Boolean Logic
http://www.internettutorials.net/boolean.html

Four NETS for Better Searching
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/fournets.htm

Maine MARVEL
http://libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/

Wikipedia, Answers & Open Source: Authoritative vs Democratic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.answers.com/

Major Search Engines & Directories
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156221

Specialized Search Engines and Directories
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/specialized.html

Blue Web'n
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/contentTable2.cfm

42eXplore
http://42explore.com/

eThemes
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/index.shtml

National Library of Mathematical Manipulatives
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers
http://www.freetech4teachers.com

Learning in Maine Blog
http://learninginmaine.blogspot.com/

Learning in America Wiki
http://learninginamerica.wikispaces.com/

Saving and Organizing Sites

Portaportal http://www.portaportal.com/
Bookmarking Sites http://region6.mainelearns.org/bookmarkingsites.html
Online Classroom Environments http://region6.mainelearns.org/onlineclassenviron.html
BridgeURL http://bridgeurl.com/
Delicious http://www.delicious.com/

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Reflection and Putting into Practice

Debrief